New generation takes over at Keitele group of Finland

The “Wood Products” division of Holmen AB of Stockholm, Sweden, recorded a positive result in the second quarter of 2023, too. At SEK55m (April-June 2022: SEK598m), the figure was significantly higher than in the previous quarter, but only less than a tenth of the above-average level of a year earlier. According to the...

No significant increase in demand was recognisable on the domestic and foreign sawn-softwood markets or on the German markets for finger-jointed carcassing (KVH) and gluelam timber in the course of the second quarter of 2023 either. As in the preceding weeks, both the trade and direct buyers are still restricting...

Moelven Industrier ASA of Moelv, Norway, believes that although business activity on the international sawnwood markets in the first quarter of 2023 was better than expected at the start of the year, lower prices for sawnwood and processed wood as well as lower sales figures and higher costs exerted substantial...